On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 08:50:58PM +0200, Joost Witteveen wrote: > >Can you give me any list of packages that we should build, are > >unavailable, and don't have an RC bug open that it failed to > >build? > > > > Not anymore. I remember a that a few weeks (months?) ago apt-get-ing > from testing complained about a lot missing packages. But now at least > that works OK again for me.
Those were just problems with migration to testing, those things sort themself out over time, but it had some help of upload to testing-proposed-updates. > The other (other than nagios-plugins) > packages I remember compiling when they were unavailable for some time > in unstable were sendmail (after a security bug), and ntp > 4.2.0a+stable-8.2. But both now are available from the testing archive, > so both problems have already been noticed. Afaik, ntp isn't in testing yet on amd64, and I should know. 4.2.0a+stable-8.2 was only in unstable. Hopefully the new version we're working on is ready soon, and move to testing fast. > >In this case, it's a bug in the package where it > >should actually specifiy a correct versioned build dependency. > >Even though we could build it at a later time, we don't, and > >expect the maintainer to upload a new version with that bug > >fixed. > Agreed. > > BTW, are you sure it was builddeps in this case? the build haning in trying > to ping localhost seems not to relate to builddeps. nagios-plugins didn't have a missing build dependency or anything. I was trying to explain reasons why something might fail to build on the buildd and work for you. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]